Patriotic vs. Civics Education
Some in our country want to start a Devolutionary War to erase not only much of the progress we've made, but further, all record and acknowledgment of our struggles to get where we are today ...
15 June, 2021
Those Who Will Not Learn
Another day, another mass shooting, and yet guns continue to proliferate, even as, not coincidentally, the peaceful resolution of disputes is increasingly restricted...
10 June, 2021
Biden’s First 100 Days
What progressives never expected him to be, he's been; what he most told us he wanted to be remains elusive...
18 May, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, April 2021: Party, Faction, Tribe
In his farewell address, Washington was very clear about his top-of-mind fear for our democracy: political parties. And yet it's hard to imagine the progress we've made w/out the Ds and Rs...
13 May, 2021
Do We Have Woke And Cancel Culture Backwards?
For all their talk about "cancel culture," it sure looks like it's the post-modern GOP that keeps waking up on the wrong side of the bed...
13 May, 2021
Support Social Ventures To Build Back Better
Doing good by doing well and doing well by doing good are one in the same in the post-pandemic economy, especially when the concept of what constitutes a social venture is appropriately expanded...
20 April, 2021
21st Century Citizenship, March 2021: Transition
Presidential transitions are normally quiet affairs. This year's, belated to begin with, promises to be long, and touch all aspects of American life as few have seen government so much as attempt...
13 April, 2021
Time to Ride the 2021 Civic Wave
The forbidding political shoals created by the last four years have also generated the biggest civics wave since the 1930s, and a one-time opportunity to ride it to safe haven...
06 April, 2021
The Big Tent of the Democratic Party: Past, Present and Future
Democrats have long been the "big tent party," but during the 2020 campaign and early days of the Biden administration, many seem to have forgotten what that requires and why it's important...
16 March, 2021
RIP GOP. Hello POT.
The party formerly known as the GOP has failed to take the last pivot from the road to perdition and become the Party Of Trump. What they're smoking is open to debate...
09 March, 2021